Tom Panuzio wraps up our Winter Sports Spectacular coverage

Tom Panuzio wraps up our Winter Sports Spectacular coverage

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 Utah) - The Winter Olympic Games are a wrap, so national security expert Tom Panuzio stopped by Good Morning Utah to talk about the success in Sochi, and what to expect at future games.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 Utah) - The Winter Olympic Games are a wrap, so national security expert Tom Panuzio stopped by Good Morning Utah to talk about the success in Sochi, and what to expect at future games.

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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah --- As the Sochi Olympics begin to wrap up in Russia a lot of fans around the us are wondering: When will the games come back to the states? Some former Olympic host cities are eyeing future games including the host of the 2002 Olympics... Salt Lake City.

Alex Deibold, 28, wins bronze in snowboardcross. Lolo Jones and Lauryn Williams are bobsledders to watch. The pair are summer and winter Olympic athletes. U.S. to face the Czech Republic in quarterfinals of men's hockey.

The United States got its first ever gold medal in Ice Dancing thanks to Meryl Davis and Charlie White. The US also did very well in the 2-man bobsled event, ending a medal drought since 1952 and coming away with a bronze.

Athletes and Olympic attendees are experiencing warmer temperatures this week in Russia. The highs have made it all the way to the 60s. The wind will also play a big role in the ski jumping events as athletes either jump into the wind or with the wind.

PARK CITY, Utah - Their fate is literally up in the air, what happens in the three seconds from launch to landing is judged with a very close eye. Before a skier even lands U.S. Freestyle Head Coach Todd Ossian knows what happened.

Athlete Profiles

Ice Dancing has become one of the more popular events in the Winter Olympics. It wasn’t always that way. Rockford, Illinois resident Gene Heffron was one of the skaters who helped open the eyes of Olympic officials and the world to that sport.

Walter ‘Red’ Bainbridge participated in the 1948 Olympics in Switzerland by demonstrating ice dancing. Up to that point very little was known about that sport. Now 66 years later the United States has its first gold medalists in that sport.

SOCHI, Russia -- Sochi Reporter Tim Kelchner sat down with gold medalist and figure skater Evan Lysacek. Lysacek is not competing in this year’s games due to injury, but he’s still excited to a part of the action.

Dmitry Feld, Team USA Luge Special Events Manager, says his sport has come a long way. In this Web Winter Sports Spectacular exclusive, Feld tells Sochi correspondent Neile Jones how Team USA is looking.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - The 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia are right around the corner. The Olympic athletes are in tip top shape because of training, and also how they've been eating. You might be surprised just how easy eating right is, for you.